Nicholas Leo Racich

Banco de Investimento Global SA (BiG) is a privately held, specialized Portuguese investment bank which was founded by Carlos Rodrigues and Nicholas Racich in 1998 to operate in all business areas open to the banking sector in Portugal, offering banking, savings, investment trading and advisory services to a defined base of individual, institutional and corporate clients. Headquartered in Lisbon, BiG pioneered online investing in Portugal and is the leading independent provider of online investment services based on internet trading volumes. They are a member of Euronext and maintain partnership arrangements with global financial services suppliers to provide clients access to major stock, options and futures exchanges.